Urban infrastructure mines: On the economic and environmental motives of cable recovery from subsurface power grids

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages 353-363

  Krook, Joakim ^a   Svensson, Niclas ^a   Wallsten, Björn ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Actor perspective; Life cycle assessment; Metals recycling; Private economics; Urban mining

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM COATINGS; CABLES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EXTRACTION; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE; MANAGERS; MINERAL RESOURCES; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING;

ACTOR PERSPECTIVE; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY; INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); METALS RECYCLING; RESOURCE DEPENDENCES; URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE;

COSTS;

EID: 84931576152     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.05.071     Document Type: Article

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